Welcome to Andover Public Schools Technology Pinpoint Committee Wiki
The Technology Pinpoint Committee has been formed as subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Process that the School Committee commissioned.
PURPOSE:The purpose of the Technology Pinpoint Committee is to conduct an assessment of the state of technology in the district, look at opportunities, challenges, define a vision, develop a mission, identify our values and beliefs, establish goals, define measures of success, and develop an action plan.
Future Management Systems, Inc. has been hired by the School Committee to guide us through the process. They have provided with a process to follow. This process directs us to complete a three part process.
Part 1:Assessment. (developed via key stakeholder interviews; focus groups, internal documentation review; sometimes site visits; external research; and the "retrospective")
1. Vision description of the preferred future the organization is trying to create as it fulfills its mission and goals. It is userful to have concrete scenario/vignettes included in the vision, especially if depicted from the primary customer's point of view. time should be spent discussingwho the primary customer is (recipient of organizational products and services), versus who the end consumer is (ultimate beneficiary of organizational products and services). Vision statements can range in length from 2 sentence to a whole page.
2. Mission: short, memorable description of the organization's purpose or reason for being. According to Perter Drucker, a good missio statement answers the questions: What do we do? For whom? Why?, How (in which distinct ways)?
3. Values and Beliefs the 4-6 major core values and beliefs are the underlying support to an organization's mission, vision, and goals and therefore provide a shared foundation for the operation. they are the things that a group is least willing to compromise on and will be most upset about if violated. (What would you put on a banner for your organization?)
4. Goals: 3-5 major, long-term, action-oriented phrases, associated with each theme, to describe what you are trying to achieve in each theme/priority area.
5. Success Measures: 2-5 evidence-based, concrete indicators of successful fulfillment of each goal. How will you know when you have reached these goals? these can include quantitative measures as well as process/qualitative measures. Guideline: dissect each component of the goal statement to further define success measures; use success measures to define and refine strategies as needed.
6. Interim Targets: incremental measures building toward fulfillment of each success measure (e.g., percentarge increase, numerical increases, other). Note: some success measures may take 6 mos, some may take 1 year, and some may take all 5 year of the plan.
Part 3: Action Plan
Strategies: 2-4 selected ways to move you toward each goal; usually, the best strategies are those which have impact in multiple areas (also known as leverage, or "bang for the buck"). Guiding question: will these strategies, when combined, fulfill our goal and measures?
Actions: any number of specific steps you need to take (very specific, discrete, and concrete) to implement each strategy.
Due Date: date by which each action will be completed
Person(s) Responsible: identifies the lead (L) for each action, and related people to implement (I) and support (S) them.
Additional Resources Needed: financial, material, or other resources needed to fulfill the goal/strategies/actions.
Monitoring/Evaluation Strategies: method(s) used to assess progress toward goals and success measures at regular intervals duringthe planning life cycle.
Welcome to Andover Public Schools Technology Pinpoint Committee Wiki
The Technology Pinpoint Committee has been formed as subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Process that the School Committee commissioned.
PURPOSE: The purpose of the Technology Pinpoint Committee is to conduct an assessment of the state of technology in the district, look at opportunities, challenges, define a vision, develop a mission, identify our values and beliefs, establish goals, define measures of success, and develop an action plan.
Future Management Systems, Inc. has been hired by the School Committee to guide us through the process. They have provided with a process to follow. This process directs us to complete a three part process.
Part 1: Assessment. (developed via key stakeholder interviews; focus groups, internal documentation review; sometimes site visits; external research; and the "retrospective")
Part 2: Strategic Framework
1. Vision description of the preferred future the organization is trying to create as it fulfills its mission and goals. It is userful to have concrete scenario/vignettes included in the vision, especially if depicted from the primary customer's point of view. time should be spent discussingwho the primary customer is (recipient of organizational products and services), versus who the end consumer is (ultimate beneficiary of organizational products and services). Vision statements can range in length from 2 sentence to a whole page.
2. Mission: short, memorable description of the organization's purpose or reason for being. According to Perter Drucker, a good missio statement answers the questions: What do we do? For whom? Why?, How (in which distinct ways)?
3. Values and Beliefs the 4-6 major core values and beliefs are the underlying support to an organization's mission, vision, and goals and therefore provide a shared foundation for the operation. they are the things that a group is least willing to compromise on and will be most upset about if violated. (What would you put on a banner for your organization?)
4. Goals: 3-5 major, long-term, action-oriented phrases, associated with each theme, to describe what you are trying to achieve in each theme/priority area.
5. Success Measures: 2-5 evidence-based, concrete indicators of successful fulfillment of each goal. How will you know when you have reached these goals? these can include quantitative measures as well as process/qualitative measures. Guideline: dissect each component of the goal statement to further define success measures; use success measures to define and refine strategies as needed.
6. Interim Targets: incremental measures building toward fulfillment of each success measure (e.g., percentarge increase, numerical increases, other). Note: some success measures may take 6 mos, some may take 1 year, and some may take all 5 year of the plan.
Part 3: Action Plan